About the BSA SPHS Image Collection
The SPHS photographic collection was amassed by The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies between 1891 and 1967 through the donation of images. It contained negatives, both glass and film in a variety of sizes, photographic prints and glass lantern slides. It contains both original and copy negatives. Index cards with small contact prints served as finding aids for the collection. It was designed as an image reference collection where images could be duplicated as either prints or slides and sold or lent to members.
The BSA SPHS Collection is part of the original SPHS photographic collection, selected by donors who were associated with the BSA or images of topographic interest, particularly in areas the BSA was known to have worked. The remainder of the extant SPHS collection went to the Hellenic Literary and Historical Archives (MIET-ELIA) in Athens. Documentation for this collection consists of 5 Negative registers (held in the SPHS offices in London), the published catalogues or accession lists of lantern slides in The Journal of Hellenic Studies, the Minute Book December 1949-January 1983 for the Photographic and Filmstrip Committee of the SPHS (held in the SPHS Library in London) and information contained on extant index cards.
Part of a collection of images from Halliday's travels around Crete following the excavations at Kamares Cave in 1913. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Eugenike, Crete".
Part of a collection of images from Halliday's travels around Crete following the excavations at Kamares Cave in 1913. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Eugenike, Crete, church of, closed with ropes of candles to ward off epidemic".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Gortys: Arcadia: the walls".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Gortys: Arcadia: the walls".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Samiko: a postern".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Gortys: Arcadia: the walls".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mount Lykaion".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Karytaina: Gate of fortress".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Samiko: details of wall".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Patras: south wall of fortress".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Gortys: Arcadia: view from walls looking N.E.".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Gortys: Arcadia: detail of S.E. gate".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Karytaina: general view from Andritsana road, from west".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Karytaina: general view from Andritsana road, from S.W.".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Karytaina: general view from Andritsana road, from south".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Karytaina: the Frankish Bridge".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Karytaina: the Frankish Bridge".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Samiko: the east corner from the west".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Samiko: the east corner looking west".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Samiko: west wall and square tower".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Samiko: details of wall".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Seriphos: from the harbour".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Seriphos: from the harbour".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Seriphos: from the harbour".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Thera: Akrotin".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sparta: view between Sparta and Mistra".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Paros: Paroikia".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Paros: the cloister of Hekaton pyliani Church".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Paros: detail of fortress wall".
The original description in in the SPHS register reads: "Pindus: near top of Zygos pass".
The original description in in the SPHS register reads: "Scutari: (Albaniae) street scene".
The original description in in the SPHS register reads: "Spalato: pillars of duomo".
The original description in in the SPHS register reads: "Spalato: gate of vestibule of Rotunda".
The original description in in the SPHS register reads: "Spalato: colonnade facing duomo".
The original description in in the SPHS register reads: "Traü: Porta Marina".
The original description in in the SPHS register reads: "Traü: fortress".
The original description in in the SPHS register reads: "Parga".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Meteroa: H. Stephanos interior of the monastery".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Meteora: H. Stephanos church".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Janina: mosque".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Janina: Ali Pasha's fortress walls".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Janina: Ali Pasha's fortress gate".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Arta (N. Greece) church of Αγιος Βασίλιος".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Arta (N. Greece) church of Αγια Πωραγαρήτρια".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Arta (N. Greece) church of Αγια Πωραγαρήτρια".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Arta (N. Greece) the bridge".
Part of a series of images from the survey 1902-1906 carried out by F.W. Hasluck at Cyzicus and surrounding territory in Anatolia, under the auspices of the British School at Athens. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Aesepus valley: Roman bridge (Guventchin Küprü), down side BSA xiii 186"
Part of a series of images from the survey 1902-1906 carried out by F.W. Hasluck at Cyzicus and surrounding territory in Anatolia, under the auspices of the British School at Athens. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Cyzicus: Architectural fragments".
Part of a series of images from the survey 1902-1906 carried out by F.W. Hasluck at Cyzicus and surrounding territory in Anatolia, under the auspices of the British School at Athens. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Cyzicus: Architectural fragments".
Part of a series of images from the survey 1902-1906 carried out by F.W. Hasluck at Cyzicus and surrounding territory in Anatolia, under the auspices of the British School at Athens. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Cyzicus: Architectural fragments".